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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Tablet 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gilgamesh asks Shamash to give Enkidu what?
(a) A kingdom of his own
(b) A dream
(c) Victory over Humbaba
(d) A wife

2. What does Enkidu forget when he is sitting before the courtesan?
(a) The courtesan's name
(b) Where he was born
(c) Who his parents are
(d) His own name

3. What does Gilgamesh want to do in the Cedar Forest?
(a) Cut down all the trees
(b) Learn to live with the animals like Enkidu
(c) Go hunting
(d) To meet the shepherds

4. Line 42 at the end of Tablet 4 is called what kind of line?
(a) A catch-line
(b) A culminating line
(c) A imaginary line
(d) A final-line

5. What do the eight winds do to Humbaba?
(a) Blow him to the underworld
(b) Immobilize him
(c) Blow him into the sea
(d) Blow down the trees on top of him

Short Answer Questions

1. Humbaba asks Gilgamesh to not do what to him?

2. What does Gilgamesh do that awakens Humbaba?

3. What happens to those who go to the cedar forest?

4. Who do the elders counsel Gilgamesh to let lead the way?

5. Humbaba promises to be Gilgamesh's what if left alive?

(see the answer key)

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